On Wednesday 16 June 2004 04:45, Antony wrote: > Hi all, >[ big snip] > > Is there anything that I can do about this? I know about training it, > but doesn't that need thousands of messages to work? > > A
Yes, training spamassassin requires thousands of messages to work, both ham messages and spam messages. When I first installed spamassassin, it caught nothing. I didn't realize that thousands meant thousands. Once I got a thousand spam messages to train it on, it started working better and better. My hit rate now is probably 75% or greater, with no false positives (I've only ever had one false positive). I know 75% isn't awesome, but I'm being conservative, because I don't really track it that closely, and I don't want to mislead you into thinking it'll be perfect. But it's enough that I get most of my spams properly identified. I don't have spamassassin set to autolearn, and I've noticed that right after I train it with the newest messages, it works great. Then, new style spam comes out, and it does poorly for a bit. I then train it on the newest spams, and it works great again. That's what autolearn is for, I guess, but I'd rather not have to deal with false positives. I could train it once a day via a cron job, but I haven't done that yet. As always, your mileage may vary, but hopefully not that much! :-) Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
